Introduction to Data Visualization- Tableau PublicWorkshop 3

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Set up your laptop

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» Download Tableau Public on your laptop: ▪ Google “tableau public” OR ▪ Go to this link → https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/

» Download data file on your laptop:▪ Go to https://bit.ly/2SsDYqN and download an excel file ‘King

County_Poverty_15-18’

Agenda

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» Overview» Participant Introductions» Introduction to data visualizations» Tell Your Stories with Data» Exercise 1» Introduction to Tableau Public» Exercise 2» Q&A» Closing

Data Visualization

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» Refers to showcasing data, numbers, and statistics through images and charts.

» When you display data visually, you’ll be able to more easily tease out meaningful patterns from a set of otherwise indecipherable numbers, and it makes it easier to draw conclusions and make informed decisions. ▪ pairing text with images improves comprehension by 89% (Source:

Dr. Ruth Colvin Clark and Dr. Richard E. Mayer. E-Learning and the Science of Instruction. via Google Books. http://bit.ly/RichardMayer)

Tableau Public & Census» Census Tableau page

(https://public.tableau.com/profile/us.census.bureau#!/)

11https://public.tableau.com/profile/us.census.bureau#!/vizhome/BreweriesintheUnitedStates/StateDashboard

What story do you want to tell?

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» Story▪ What question are you trying to answer, or issue are you

trying to solve? How can you read your data?

» Audience/Viewers▪ Who are you talking to exactly?

» Data▪ What kind of data is important to you?

Exercise 1 Tell Your Stories with Data

» Go to data.census.gov and find poverty data in King County, Washington. Think about what story you want to tell using the poverty data and write down your answers below.

» Story (What question are you trying to answer, or issue are you trying to solve?):

» Goals & Impact:» Audience (Who will read this visualization):» Data (What data do you want to use?):

Choose ‘Geography > County > Washington > King County, Washington’

Useful Tips» You can start with a story, or you can also start from data » Decide how you want to present the data whether it is charts,

graphs, infographics, etc.

» Be creative! Think about combining different data sets for interesting stories

» You can use past, present and future stories with data and predict future trends or show past and present trends.

» Don’t turn it into an art project- don’t lose sight of the information and analytics. Simple visualizations can have the biggest impact on your audience

Introduction to Tableau Public

Tableau Public» Tableau Public is a free interactive data visualization service that

lets anyone publish interactive data visualizations to the web.

» Visualizations that have been published to Tableau Public (“vizzes”) can be embedded into web pages and blogs, they can be shared via social media or email, and they can be made available for download to other users.

» It does not allow you to save your workbooks locally

Useful Tableau Terms

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» Dashboard: A collection of views shown in a single location where you can compare and monitor a variety of data simultaneously.

» Data Source: The underlying data that Tableau Tableau is connected to. You can’t change the data source in Tableau Reader.

» Filter: A control on a view that limits the data shown in a view. For example, a filter on Region that only includes the West.

» Repository: A folder located in your My Documents folder that stores workbooks.» Workbook: A collection of one or more worksheets and dashboards.» Worksheet: A single view of data. Each worksheet can be connected to a single

data source.

Upload on Tableau Public

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» Have your data ready» Connect your data to Tableau» Create sheets and dashboards» Publish to the web

▪ https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/resources?video=pJQ1ZeJaGvc

Data Source: The underlying data that Tableau is connected to.

Marks: A visual representation of one or more rows in a data source. Mark types can be bar, line, square, and so on.

Filter: A control on a view that limits the data shown in a view. For example, a filter on Region that only includes the West.

Sheet: A single view of data. Each worksheet can be connected to a single data source.

Workbook: A collection of one or more worksheets and dashboards.

» Worksheet: A single view of data. Each worksheet can be connected to a single data source.

» Dimensions: fields that are used to slice and describe data records (e.g. names, dates, IDs, geographical info)

» Measures: the value fields of those records that will be aggregated (summed, averaged, etc) to arrive at some final result., Measures

» Columns, Rows

Cleaning Exported Census Data

» King County poverty data from Data.census.gov

Cleaning Your Data» The process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or

inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database and refers to identifying incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate or irrelevant parts of the data and then replacing, modifying, or deleting the dirty or coarse data.

Census data (csv) is now connected.

● Data Source: The underlying data that Tableau REader is connected to. You can’t change the data source in Tableau Reader.

Using Tableau Data Interpreter

» Use Tableau data interpreter (https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/data_interpreter.htm)

▪ Data Interpreter can give you a head start when cleaning your data. It can detect things like titles, notes, footers, empty cells, and so on and bypass them to identify the actual fields and values in your data set.

▪ It can even detect additional tables and sub-tables so that you can work with a subset of your data independently of the other data.

▪ After Data Interpreter has done its magic, you can check its work to make sure it captured the data that you wanted and identified it correctly. Then, you can make any necessary adjustments.

▪ After you select the data that you want to work with, you might also need to do some additional cleaning steps like pivoting your data, splitting fields, or adding filters to get the data in the shape you want before starting your analysis.

Check cleaned with Data Interpreter > Click Review the results

A copy of your data source opens in Excel on the Key for the Data Interpreter tab. Review the key to find out how to read the results.

» Click each tab to review how Data Interpreter interpreted the data source.▪ If Data Interpreter found additional

tables, also called found tables or sub-tables, they are identified in the <sheet name>_subtables tab by outlining their cell ranges. A separate tab is also included for each sub-table, color coded to identify the header and data rows.

▪ If Data Interpreter does not provide the expected results, clear the Cleaned with Data Interpreter check box to use the original data source.

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Exercise 2.1 Retrieving and cleaning data

» (If you haven’t downloaded the data) Download Census data ‘King County_Poverty_15-18’ at: https://bit.ly/2SsDYqN

» Step 1_ Retrieve data: In the poverty data, find 2014 data and add them to the original data set: Retrieve and add 2014 Poverty status in King County, Washington data by AGE, SEX, RACE AND HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN from data.census.gov to the ‘King County_Poverty_15-18’ file.

» Step 2_Prepare/Clean the data set: Format the 2014 data as 2015-2018 data are formatted in the file.

▪ Delete blank rows and move cells around to put data in the right cell.

▪ Don’t forget to enter 2014 in Column G (Year).

» Step 3_Save the data set: Once you are done with cleaning the data, save the excel file as ‘King County_Poverty_14-18’

Exercise 2.2 Creating Tableau Visualizations 1

» Connect the excel file to your Tableau Public

» Create a bar chart of the population living below the poverty line in King County, WA and use AGE to see the difference between AGE groups

» Rename the Title ‘The population living below the poverty line in King County, WA’

Exercise 2.3 Creating Tableau Visualizations 2

» In a separate worksheet, create a bar chart and compare the total population living under the poverty level and add AGE breakdown for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018

» Rename the title ‘Total population living below the poverty line in King County by age group, WA’

» In a separate worksheet, create a line chart of the percentage below the poverty level in King County, WA using sex category to compare the percentage difference between 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018

» Upload your work on your Tableau page

Tableau Desktop and Prep» Students/Teachers get 1-year free (https://www.tableau.com/academic/students):

▪ Students at accredited academic institutions worldwide are eligible for a free one-year license to activate Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep. Complete the form to confirm your eligibility and unlock your free license. You must be 16 years of age or older to request a license.

Other ResourcesTableau Free Training Videos» https://www.tableau.com/learn/articles/best-data-visualization-blogs

Census Courses» https://www.census.gov/data/academy/courses.html

Any Questions?

Next Steps

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